it is all good, but there is always room for improvement.

It’s just a thought, a thought that I seem to be having more and more of lately but it seems that one of these days, I do not kn ow how, but one of these days I will find myself in Europe. London. Paris. Rome. Doing the things that writers do in those cities, knowing that it will all be true and that I will be no longer dreaming. In the meantime though, the only thing that I can do is just think about it all. It’s all good.

there have been timewhen the only thing that I have been able to do is to think of londonparisromeand what it would take to get there to be theredoing all of the things that I have wanted to doand thing of HemingwayFitzgeraldMillerEliotand all of the other writersgreat and smallwho frequent my dreamsand make me want to be like thembut what else can I do be dreamlondon parisromeand just what might be

a new time a new place,the end of another monthand the world seems to turning as the way that it always hasbut in the endwhat else can we doexcept deal with what we havewith the time that we have been givenand the world still turnsand the rain still fallsand people live and die every daywith no other thought but for the momentand the last of it,always seems to be what it will be doingand how all of it needs to be donewhat else is there left to saydobelieveor even try and understandthat all of this chaoswe are expected to find orderbut in the endthe only thing left to dois to believe in a future that we know will never get hereand that we find ourselves putting off our dreams for another yearuntil we find ourselves to old to enjoy themor to even try and make the come truebut it is all still therewaiting for another chance to liveto breathjust to try and laugh one more timeand to make the best of whatever it is that we have leftwhen nothing else really seems to matterbut when our dreams finally do come trueto make them last one more dayone more hourbefore returning to our own worldthe rest of it is just what it is and nothing more

The one thing that I know right now is that the more that I think about all of the things that are going on in Washington right now is that it is all just politics as usual. Who’s lying and who isn’t. I think that I would be more surprised if there was a politician that actually told the truth. Cynical? Maybe. Maybe I am just being a realist.

It’s just a thought, but why is it that the people in Washington continue to printer play money, with no thought to the idea that one of these days, all of this debt is going to have to be repaid, and then we are going to be in trouble. It’s just a thought.

thoughtswords ideasit all runs the same to meknowing that it is always the samethat there is something that we always need to be doingthin king about all of the things that are really importantat least for the moment,but there will always be something that we will be missingwhat else is therewhen we see the world around usand are willing to take it for what it really isand knowing that there is always something that we need to be doing.

Thanksgiving and jazz, that is about all that is going to be happening this week with Thanksgiving coming up before we know it, and before we know it Christmas and new year will be here. Time and the music always continues. It's all good.

Just a few lines this morning to keep it all going in and with the knowledge that one of these days I'm sure that I will have set some sort of a record for having sent the largest number of personally written emails, but at the rate that I'm going right now I think that I'm slowly approaching Hillary Clinton numbers as for is the total number of emails sent which may or may not be a good thing I guess it all depends on how you're looking at it but I don't want this turning into a political discussion.

But speaking of Washington in all that mess I'm just wondering how much more the American public is going to be willing to take before all of this finally explodes and we get back to just run the government and stop wasting money. Well the way things are looking right now I don't see that happening anytime soon and we just find ourselves getting bogged down further and further into political infighting and mountains and mountains of debt.

At the rate things are going there is going to come a time when the piper is going to need to be paid and that the only thing that these bozos in Washington or doing at the moment is just thinking that can further and further down the road.

Sorry didn't mean to turn this into a political discussion but sometimes I just get so frustrated that there's nothing that I can do but to start venting and I guess that's what I needed to do with the moment is just do a little venting but in the end what else is there. There comes a point though when the only thing that I can say is that there are people out there in Washington who talk a good game but when it comes right down to it it's just business as usual regardless of which side of the all you're on. It's all good.

​It's in the end the only reason why I write is because sometimes I find speaking to be just a little too difficult, so I try to write it out instead, it gives me an opportunity to find out what's really on my mind.

It’s just a thought, but there are times when I find myself thinking, almost believing that this just might be all that there is, but I have to remind myself that in all of this, there is something bigger, something better, something that goes beyond the very day need of just survival, and that the rest of it really does matter.

That how we live today, will effect the way that we are tomorrow,and where we will spend the rest of our days, even eternity. The rest of it is out of our hands.

So we take what it is that we are given, and we pray for the rest. It’s just a thought.

lifedeathand the meaning of it allthat there are those who will saythat life has no meaningwell if life has no meaningthen that is the meaning of lifebut the meaning of lifehas to go beyond having no meaningbecause if life has no meaningthen we might as well give up on all of it nowbecause without the hope of nothing betterthat there is someoneor something beyond ourselvesthat is bigger then what we can imaginethen that at least gives life some sort of purposemeaninghopeeternity past the jaws of deathand the will to live this life for one more day

what will be left of us when we run out of things to believe inthat our dreams have all run dryand the world seems to far awayand the old ways still turn out to be the best waysthere will always be someone who will say,let’s try it this wayand the whole thingwhatever it iswill start all over againand there will still be those who will be left scratching there headswondering when it will all end

With Thanksgiving coming up on Thursday, I am going to keep this as brief as I can because the next few days are going to be bust at work, so I do not want to be accused of dragging through lack of sleep or that I am dogging it, though there are those who would say that I am for whatever the reason, but the only thing that I can say right now is that it is all just what it is and nothing more.

I pray that all of you are well and that I will be hearing from you soon. It’s all good.

With Thanksgiving less then a week away now, the only thing that I am going to be able to do right now is to just take a deep breath and just remind myself that by this time next week the madness that Thanksgiving seems to have become will finally be over with. It’s all good.

In the meantime, I pray that you are well and that I will be hearing from all of you soon.

It’s just a thought, but there are times when the only thing that I am going to be able to do right now is just keep trying to be myself, simply because who else is there I would rather be. The rest of it really doesn’t seem to matter. It’s just a thought.

Why I do what I dois like asking me why it is that I breathesimply because it is what and who I amnever believing all of the things that come my waybut in the endI have always found it a bit difficult to be myselfbut who else is it that I am going to bebecause the only thing that I know right now isthat in a world full of other peopletrying to be someone that they are notit all just seems to be such a great waste of timeand that the truth of it all isin cases like thatthat once you realize that you are on the wrong paththat it is to hard to get backbut it is always something that be donewhere else is there left to goto beto understandother then to be where we are right now

here I am trying to write,again,and I am still trying to find out where it is that I am going to be going with all of thisin the hopethat I will be able to find all of the words that I need to make it all plainin the end thoughall that I know that I need to be doingI will be doingand that the best that I can hope for will be the writer that I know that I can be

Som here we are at Veteran’s Day again, and the days and the years just seem to be slipping away as they always do, in the hope that in all of this, I am able to try and make the days that I am living in the hope that in the end, there will be something that I will leave behind and that after all is said and done, we all look, not only to the future, but to the past. Not to live in the past, but to look at the past in the hope that we will learn where we have been, in the hope that we will be able to figure out where it is that we are going.

I believe that those who forget history will be doomed to repeat it. Even with that in mind, the only thing that I can do right now is just to keep putting out what it is that I need to be putting out in the hope that what I am doing and will continue to be doing will have some effect somewhere and to be able to do all of the things that I need to be doing, whatever all of that means.

I keep doing all of this writing business in the hope that with in all of these emails, this vast pile of words, that I will be able to find my own place within the world and where all of this will take me. Now maybe I am a bit of a dreamer, or that I am just out right fooling myself, but the world needs more dreamers and fools that are willing to put themselves out there for the sake of there art and what it is that they are willing to believe in, to say, to understand, to know. That with all of the things that are going in in the world right now, there just seems to be some many other things that are important then what it is that I am trying to do.

Well the only thing that I know right now is that I can let myself get overwhelmed by it all and not do anything, or I can try and do something with my limited ability with words to do all of the things that I need to do, whatever that means, and the only thing that I know is that there will come a time, when everything will be made plain, and that the only thing left to do right now is just toot my own horn in the hope that it will all be heard in the vast orchestration of time.

It is just a thought but there are times when the only thing left for me to do is to just keep on doing all of the things that I am doing because what else is there. What else is there, well I can just give up and take all of the things that life is throwing at me and not do anything to ty and make it work for me. The only thing that I can do is to just try and make it all real, and even if I fail to achieve all of the things that I am dreaming about, never giving up on your dreams must be something that drives us to do bigger and better things, but never forgetting who we are asa person and where it is that we came from and all of the people that has helped us along the way.

We have to and must be willing to find that balance, otherwise, success, in whatever form that it takes, is shallow and meaningless. In the meantime it is all good.

There are times when I find myself rushing through it alljust to get something done,in the hope that it will not be looked upon as being tio foolish,but the one thing that I know right now is,’that even with that in mind,the only thing that I believe in isthe idea that there are those amongst us who do nothing at allbut sit around and just think about doing things,but get nothing accomplished.They are so busy doing other thingsthat the rest of it just seems so out of placeand that there will be nothing left but ever lasting regret.

the only thing left to do right now is to remember the pastwith an eye to the futurewith hope in our heartsand with enough wisdom to keep from being foolish.In the end,the only thing left to do is to just take what we are given and pray for the rest.

This is my Grandfather Arthur Cunliffe Private Lancashire Regiment British Army World War One

He was not as serious as the picture would let you believe, had that very typical British sense of humor, or so I have been told.

This Is my father Private Daniel Sandro Private United States Army World War 2. I like to think that the two of them would be pleased that they are being remembered on this Veterans Day, or what is so to be Veterans Day. Though I am sure that either one or both of them would say, 'Thanks, but what did you do that for kid?'